Can Internet Relationships Hide Who You Actually Are

India
June 8, 2011 11:37am CST
I just want a heated debate on if you agree with me if i say that you are not true online in a relationship and you neither do not know about the person you are in the relation with.What do you think?
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@jaiho2009 (39141)
• Philippines
8 Jun 11
One of my friend says that "99%" of internet affair is hoax- that is according to him and his judgment and he is referring to love on the net. But with friendship- i can prove that friendship on the net is real,maybe depends on the person. I met my best friends in the web 4 years ago and met them in real life and now we becomes close and family. But if you want to asks me about love affair- i can say maybe it's 50-50... welcome to mylot and enjoy mylotting
• India
8 Jun 11
So you are the same you online? As in you open a lot and do not show that you are something which you are not.
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@jaiho2009 (39141)
• Philippines
8 Jun 11
yes...i am who i am..online and offline. you can see i even posted few photos here...i'd rather be honest from the start and it's easier to tell the truth than raveling lies.
• India
9 Jun 11
Well, I totally respect that. So you are someone who believes that you should reveal yourself online. But hiding is different from lying, isnt it?
@aerous (13434)
• Philippines
8 Jun 11
I think it depend on the person in that case. Because there are real people online who deserved to be love truthfully and faithfully. Not all people online is not reliable and trustfulness... Depending on how you manage the conversation with the one who is online.
@aerous (13434)
• Philippines
9 Jun 11
You right, friend. Most of the people is shy to reveal themselves. There maybe a reason why they are doing such things. It maybe they are married that want to protect their personality in some cases that maybe happen....
• India
9 Jun 11
But everyone hides online something or the other, isn't it?
@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
8 Jun 11
Some years ago I got in touch with a man and we exchanged several emails before we decided to meet. Online he seemed like a nice person, but he turned out to be completely different in real life. When we met he told me that that he beat up his girlfriends when whe was drunk and he bragged about his drunk driving, the time that he had spent in prison etc. His real personality was very, very different from his internet personality, and I immediately lost my interest in him when I met him in real life. There were too many things that he had "forgotten" to mention online, and he had lied many several things. I met my husband on the internet, our meeting took place after my meeting with the guy that I just wrote about and because of my bad experience I was a bit skeptical when my husband and I decided to meet in person, but our meeting went really well. My husband was not different from the person that I had gotten to know online and today we have been married for 2 years. I think that there many people who lie online and I have heard about other people who have had experiences when they meet people from the internet, but there are also people are honest and people who are the same person online and offline. Most of the online friends that I have met have been pretty most like I expected based on our internet conversations.
• India
9 Jun 11
So from whatever you said, i figure out you had to experiment to filter out to the best. So hiding is a very severe issue in some cases and the rest is almost peaceful. I can really see both sides of a coin in this dicussion.
• India
9 Jun 11
well i am someone who is in a strong relationship and it all started off online.it has been 6 yrs now and i could never ask for a better partner for myself.n still i would never suggest an online relationship cz o d gazillion other risks involved.its really hard trusting people with whom we have even been living with all our lives let alone people we just met online whom we have not even heard of till that particular moment.
• India
9 Jun 11
That is well said and i can really feel the emotion in it:) All my appreciation for having taken your heart out on this.
@sriroshan (2585)
• India
8 Jun 11
I can say such relationship should not be continue first of all I am against such relationship
• India
8 Jun 11
You are against it because you are traditional or because you think others hide a lot?